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What’s the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10
tent that’s empty?
George W. Bush, private Oval Ofce meeting,
September 13, 2001
We’ve got to go after the guts of this. This could be like a pla-
naria. If you just cut off its head and it regenerates another head,
that’s not going to be very helpful. So, while, of course, Osama
bin Laden and his lieutenants are part of the story, the real part
of the story is to choke off the bloodline of this network.
Condoleezza Rice, Fox News Sunday, September 23, 2001
The bloodline of terrorist networks is money. You can have
all the fanaticism and motivation in the world, but it’s no good
un ...